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big ridge of high pressure dominating much of the nation is a reason why and we'll see temperatures in the mid to upper 90s across much of the ohio valley. here are some of the exact numbers we're expecting to see tomorrow. on sunday, 104 in minneapolis. so those heat indices could range from 110 to 115 after you factor in that humidity. this is how it looks the next few days. this extended period of heat. watch out for your elderly neighbors. if you suffer from m.s. or asthma, heart conditions, take it easy when you're outside. the folks in the great lakes and northeast will see some relief on monday as a storm system moves out of canada and brings in cooler air, but that cooling relief will will come at the expense of severe weather if you have beach plans across this region. on monday, heads up because we could see trees down due to strong, gusty winds, that could many power outages. we'll be watching that for you. >> thank you. >>> more explosive revelations today in the phone hacking scandal that is threatening rue putter -- rupert murdoch's media empire. the controversy has drawn
big ridge of high pressure dominating much of the nation is a reason why and we'll see temperatures in the mid to upper 90s across much of the ohio valley. here are some of the exact numbers we're expecting to see tomorrow. on sunday, 104 in minneapolis. so those heat indices could range from 110 to 115 after you factor in that humidity. this is how it looks the next few days. this extended period of heat. watch out for your elderly neighbors. if you suffer from m.s. or asthma, heart...
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chris sweet and danielle balmer have one big blended family on this independence day. a holiday that always carries special meaning for all of them. to see their smiles now, danielle and her two little ones, chris and his three, you'd never suspect how they got here. about four years ago danielle's husband was on patrol in iraq when he was killed by an ied. they were just about to celebrate their tenth anniversary. >> i was scared and didn't know what to do, but i wasn't thinking much past that day. >> reporter: about a year later, chris' wife jessica sweet was diagnosed with leukemia. >> i brought all the kids into jessica and i's bedroom and i told them. i told them that mommy had died, and she wasn't coming home. >> reporter: looking for support both widower and widow found themselves at an event for military families. >> it initially started out with us primarily talking about our loss and how it's affected us and our children. from that our relationship started. >> reporter: at the home they now share, there are constant reminders of their past, photos of the orig
chris sweet and danielle balmer have one big blended family on this independence day. a holiday that always carries special meaning for all of them. to see their smiles now, danielle and her two little ones, chris and his three, you'd never suspect how they got here. about four years ago danielle's husband was on patrol in iraq when he was killed by an ied. they were just about to celebrate their tenth anniversary. >> i was scared and didn't know what to do, but i wasn't thinking much...
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and it's never been a very big deal. this year they're talking about actually changing our budget because we have to. if we don't make changes now, the markets are going to force us to in the coming years and that will be a much more painful way to make changes. what happens if we don't raise the debt limit? the first thing is that we have to pay all the interest that we owe to bondholders and that means there will be much, much less left over for social security payments every year, to reimburse for medicare services that have been rendered, to pay our soldiers who are in iraq and afghanistan. but that could send shivers through our credit markets, not just here but around the world as the u.s. has had a huge loss in confidence. that could end up with major concessions. so if you borrow from your credit cards to buy a dishwasher, a car, or send your kids to school, that's going to become much, much more expensive. at the same time, the government has all this borrowing on its books and it has to pay interest on it. thos
and it's never been a very big deal. this year they're talking about actually changing our budget because we have to. if we don't make changes now, the markets are going to force us to in the coming years and that will be a much more painful way to make changes. what happens if we don't raise the debt limit? the first thing is that we have to pay all the interest that we owe to bondholders and that means there will be much, much less left over for social security payments every year, to...
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some of the big winners were "madmen," they went big a 19, hbo did well, so did "snl." we're happy for jimmy fallon's three nominations. and the nomination that went to some of the great women of nbc shows. there's amy poller, there's sn wlrks's -- "snl's" kristen wig who was nominated. tina fey got her 19th. then there's the amazing connie britain, she was nominated as well. congrats to all the nominees, the entire list is on our website. we find out the winner september 18. >>> now it's just one day away, what southern californians are calling carmageddon, the closing of the 405 freeway for 53 hours of construction. last night here, we told you about the special jetblue fares, $4 one way from burbank to long beach, those are sold out. they sold those tickets in less than three hours. and the lapd is asking celebrities to help get the word out. tom hank sent this out, this weekend, l.a., avoid carmageddon, gas-zilla, 405 grid lock-apalossza, eat and shop local. >>> when we continue here tonight, an american icon who has now gone home. we'll hear from betty ford in her
some of the big winners were "madmen," they went big a 19, hbo did well, so did "snl." we're happy for jimmy fallon's three nominations. and the nomination that went to some of the great women of nbc shows. there's amy poller, there's sn wlrks's -- "snl's" kristen wig who was nominated. tina fey got her 19th. then there's the amazing connie britain, she was nominated as well. congrats to all the nominees, the entire list is on our website. we find out the winner...
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is it possible on big things like medicare, social security and taxes? there are rumblings out of washington tonight about actual cooperation. sentencing day for casey anthony. the judge in her murder case seemed to be sending her a message. >> and the huge scandal over people hacking into electronics and now the equally big consequences. >>> and could it really be the end? as harry potter's final chapter arrives or could there be more? >>> plus here tonight for all those who remember penmanship, there's a new sign the handwriting may be on the wall. there's a new sign the handwriting may be on the wall. "nightly news" begins now. r captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it may go all the way back to their meeting on the golf course, for whatever reason, president obama and speaker of the house boehner have forged something of a relationship, while not the best of friends, they are dealing with each other across the enormous divide that has divided washington to the point of paralysis. knowing a deadline is coming and they have t
is it possible on big things like medicare, social security and taxes? there are rumblings out of washington tonight about actual cooperation. sentencing day for casey anthony. the judge in her murder case seemed to be sending her a message. >> and the huge scandal over people hacking into electronics and now the equally big consequences. >>> and could it really be the end? as harry potter's final chapter arrives or could there be more? >>> plus here tonight for all...
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is coming and they have to solve the problem of the nation's debt limit, they have to go into some big ticket items like social security, medicare and taxes. it is progress with no guarantee but nothing else has worked so far. and we begin tonight at the white house with nbc's kristen welker. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: president obama emerged after talks with congressional leaders saying both sides are deadlocked but are determined to make a deal very soon. lawmakers will work through the weekend and meet with the president again on sunday. the president and congressional leaders come together to hammer out a deal on the debt ceiling. if a deal isn't hammered out by august 2, the -- president obama called the meeting very constructive, but admitted hard work remains. >> i want to emphasize that nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to and the parties are still far apart on a wide range of issues. >> reporter: administration officials say the president is pushing for a big deal, somewhere in the ballpark of $4 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade, nearl
is coming and they have to solve the problem of the nation's debt limit, they have to go into some big ticket items like social security, medicare and taxes. it is progress with no guarantee but nothing else has worked so far. and we begin tonight at the white house with nbc's kristen welker. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: president obama emerged after talks with congressional leaders saying both sides are deadlocked but are determined to make a deal very soon. lawmakers will work...
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and paris island is these days the scene of a big first for the base and for the corps. tonight the 96-year-old facility has a new boss and she is making history as she has throughout her career as a marine, her story tonight from nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: with the summer heat now, the training is even more intense. as drill instructors mold young recruits into u.s. marines. the way they have done it for decades. the hard way. the marine corps recruit depot at paris island, south carolina produces 20,000 marines a year. inspecting the training is the new commanding general, lori reynolds. >> i was the guy on the bottom. >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: brigadier general reynolds is the first woman to head paris island and says he is humble to command the marines who volunteer during wartime. >> those are americans and we owe it to their families to take care of them. >> reporter: she served in afghanistan as the first female marine to become a lead commander in a battle zone. of the 200,000 marines around the world, nearly 14,000 are women. and many see general reynolds
and paris island is these days the scene of a big first for the base and for the corps. tonight the 96-year-old facility has a new boss and she is making history as she has throughout her career as a marine, her story tonight from nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: with the summer heat now, the training is even more intense. as drill instructors mold young recruits into u.s. marines. the way they have done it for decades. the hard way. the marine corps recruit depot at paris island, south...
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and it's getting bigger by the day, despite a trip by the big boss to london to do some damage control. nbc's stephanie gosk is covering for us tonight in london. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well the editors of the news of the world wrote in their final edition that we have won for today, a scandal that threatens the influence and power of one of the largest media companies. rupert murdock rushed to london hoping to mitigate the damage to his media empire, but it's looking more and more like there's little he can do. today new allegations reported in the british press and claims that one of the officers protecting the royals sold a list of the family's phone numbers to the news of the world. and a source close to prime minister gordon brown alleges that the sunday times, another murdock paper illegally pursued brown's private financial and medical information. anger at murdock and resentment over his media company's unchecked political clout is boiling over. >> there is an element about all this is that personal. gordon brown is bitter that news of the wo
and it's getting bigger by the day, despite a trip by the big boss to london to do some damage control. nbc's stephanie gosk is covering for us tonight in london. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well the editors of the news of the world wrote in their final edition that we have won for today, a scandal that threatens the influence and power of one of the largest media companies. rupert murdock rushed to london hoping to mitigate the damage to his media empire,...
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. >>> closing court a big city has to turn people away because the money has run out. is this any way for courts in america to do business? >>> family ties. if you have the gene that raises your risk of alzheimer's disease, would you want to know about it? tonight the story of a family that had to make that decision. >>> making a difference for noble animals that deserve a better life. >>> and coming in for a very last time. >>> and coming in for a very last time. nightly news begins right now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. they tell us the scientific explanation is this. high pressure compressing the air, cooking the air and ramming it down on top of us and holding it there. but here's the real problem. there are now 34 states where there are heat advisories or heat warnings. one million square miles of our country where folks are being warned about the heat tonight. this heat, the severe heart of it, affects 141 million americans as it's moved over big population centers, we can see how it's gotten worse in time lapse in recent days.
. >>> closing court a big city has to turn people away because the money has run out. is this any way for courts in america to do business? >>> family ties. if you have the gene that raises your risk of alzheimer's disease, would you want to know about it? tonight the story of a family that had to make that decision. >>> making a difference for noble animals that deserve a better life. >>> and coming in for a very last time. >>> and coming in for a...
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after months of negotiations with the government, carmakers including detroit's big three have agreed to a very ambitious new set of goals for fuel efficiency. there was a time when carmakers went to washington to lobby against this kind of change. times have changed. chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson joins us tonight from a honda dealership in queens, new york. anne? >> reporter: good evening, lester. what this agreement means is that in showrooms of the future you're going to see vehicles that use a lot less gasoline and reduce by half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they put into the air. those are the emissions that cause climate change. now, today, companies like honda, ford, gm, they have to meet an average fuel economy standard of 27.3 miles per gallon. that is going to double by 2025 to 54.5 miles per gallon. it should save a family $8,000 per vehicle according to the white house, and the country as a whole, $2 trillion in fuel savings costs. now, as you said, this is very unusual because these 13 major automakers, united autoworkers union, and the
after months of negotiations with the government, carmakers including detroit's big three have agreed to a very ambitious new set of goals for fuel efficiency. there was a time when carmakers went to washington to lobby against this kind of change. times have changed. chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson joins us tonight from a honda dealership in queens, new york. anne? >> reporter: good evening, lester. what this agreement means is that in showrooms of the future...
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the phone hacking scandal has already taken a big prize away from him. his company, news corporation, badly wanted to buy the big satellite network bskyb. today they dropped their bid. there's no telling where this case ends, but this is all new territory for this huge media figure and for great britain. nbc's stephanie gosk is in london again for us tonight. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, news corps got beaten up all day today by british politicians both before and after they dropped out of the bid. one of their fiercest critics, former prime minister gordon brown, who accused murdock's papers of law breaking on what he calls an industrial scale. >> order! order! >> reporter: in parliament today politicians for once found something they could agree on. rupert murdock's news corporation, they said should drop its bid for british tv network bskyb. >> they've got to stop talking about mergers until they sort out the mess they created. >> reporter: but even before they voted, news corps, beat them to it. >> they have decide
the phone hacking scandal has already taken a big prize away from him. his company, news corporation, badly wanted to buy the big satellite network bskyb. today they dropped their bid. there's no telling where this case ends, but this is all new territory for this huge media figure and for great britain. nbc's stephanie gosk is in london again for us tonight. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, news corps got beaten up all day today by british politicians both...
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a big question in that badly wounded nation, did he act alone? and there is a new death toll in this as well. nbc's martin fletcher has been covering the story from the start. he's with us tonight from oslo. martin, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. norway's police today said fewer people have been killed than thought, not 93, but 76, with some still missing. that is small relief for a country that can hardly believe what just happened. anders breivik was brought to court this morning, the face of a mass killer. police described him as calm and unaffected. breivik admitted he carried out the killings but claimed he was not guilty. the judge ordered him held in custody for eight weeks, the first four in solitary confinement. an hour earlier, across norway, two minutes of silence for the victims. later, a mass in memory of the victims was canceled at the last minute, too many people came. >> i think we're trying to take the city back to show human energy after such a powerful and vicious act. >> reporter: but then, chilling news. poli
a big question in that badly wounded nation, did he act alone? and there is a new death toll in this as well. nbc's martin fletcher has been covering the story from the start. he's with us tonight from oslo. martin, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. norway's police today said fewer people have been killed than thought, not 93, but 76, with some still missing. that is small relief for a country that can hardly believe what just happened. anders breivik was brought to court...
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big cheers for the newlyweds, the duke and duchess of cambridge. for this wedding the pressure was off. the bride and groom are relative unknowns outside the u.k. zara phillips is the queen's line to the throne. her husband mike tindall is the captain of england's rugby team. the palace said it would be a private occasion. >> no place the queen and william and kate are attending can be wholly private. not with the world's press outside. >> reporter: there were no cameras in the church. not like in april when 2 billion people around the world got front row seats. this time only 400 guests were invited, and the public wasn't openly encouraged to line the streets. they may have chosen edinborough because of this road, the royal mile. it's so narrow it limits the crowd size. three months ago in london they had 2 million spectators for william and kathryn's wedding. here they're expecting about 1500. but there were some people you couldn't keep away. >> a lot of people say that royal family -- the monarchy is a thing of the past. >> no, no. don't you be
big cheers for the newlyweds, the duke and duchess of cambridge. for this wedding the pressure was off. the bride and groom are relative unknowns outside the u.k. zara phillips is the queen's line to the throne. her husband mike tindall is the captain of england's rugby team. the palace said it would be a private occasion. >> no place the queen and william and kate are attending can be wholly private. not with the world's press outside. >> reporter: there were no cameras in the...
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his death leaves behind a power vacuum and is considered a big victory for the taliban, ann? >> thank you so much. >>> another milestone up in space today as two residents of the international space station stepped outside to retrieve a broken ammonia pump so it could be returned to earth for examination. it was the final space walk of the american shuttle era. meantime, the landing plan for the atlantis has changed and it's now scheduled to touch down before dawn on july 21st at the kennedy space center. >>> poignant moments in palm desert, california, where representatives of the current and previous first families attended a memorial service for betty ford, who died friday at the age of 93. our own brian williams is there and we'll hear from him in a bit. but nbc's lee cowan joins us, lee? >> reporter: hey, ann. this is the first of two tributes in two different states for betty ford and in keeping with her very take-charge attitude she was very specific about how she wanted to be remembered. to that end, both politics and her passion for people were front and center. >> r
his death leaves behind a power vacuum and is considered a big victory for the taliban, ann? >> thank you so much. >>> another milestone up in space today as two residents of the international space station stepped outside to retrieve a broken ammonia pump so it could be returned to earth for examination. it was the final space walk of the american shuttle era. meantime, the landing plan for the atlantis has changed and it's now scheduled to touch down before dawn on july 21st at...
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which includes some big brand names in this country. cnbc's david faber joins us in new york for some insight. david, this has now reached to one of murdoch's top deputies. what does this do to his damage control efforts. >> he's been trying to do damage control since the middle of last week in some ways when he finally started to distance himself from rebekah brooks who resigned, of course, a couple days later. the scandal does not appear to have crested yet. despite giving up the purchase of b sky b for what would have been a $12 billion deal for news corp., a huge important deal they wanted to complete in the uk and, of course, letting go of rebekah brooks and his long time lieutenant les hinton. >> on a personal level for murdoch and especially his son, are they in some sort of legal jeopardy? >> james murdoch has got to be the focus right now. because of course rebecca brooks and les hinton both having been gone, james murder okay runs news international. he has the number three position at the company, essentially, after chase car
which includes some big brand names in this country. cnbc's david faber joins us in new york for some insight. david, this has now reached to one of murdoch's top deputies. what does this do to his damage control efforts. >> he's been trying to do damage control since the middle of last week in some ways when he finally started to distance himself from rebekah brooks who resigned, of course, a couple days later. the scandal does not appear to have crested yet. despite giving up the...